You don't think their bad rep has anything to do with the nightly dose of hate speech they keep on the air between 6PM and 10PM? Or what about their morning show full of hate speech and stupid-mongering?

If ever any organization well and truly deserved the reputation they had acquired - whether positive or negative - Fox News has earned their reputation for journalistic asshattery and general willful ignorance. They worked very hard for that reputation, they should own that shit and wear it as a badge of honor.